funckmccabe_data.csv Codebook


--NOTE 1: In order to try to filter respondents located outside the US, we collected respondent IP addresses (with permission from Vanderbilt University's IRB).  We also initially collected repsondents' approximate longitude and latitude.  We have removed this information from the replication data to protect respondent anonymity.

--NOTE 2: When read into R, only the first of the three rows in the .csv file containing headers from Qualtrics is retained, so the below variable names reflect those headers in the first row.

--NOTE 3: We have provided the complete raw Qualtrics responses (with an exception noted next).  Given the nature of fielding conjoint experiments with the ConjointSDT application, the .csv file contains a large number of columns that store attributes and levels but do not themselves have consistent meaning across respondents.  We explain the general purpose of those columns in the codebook but do not describe each of those columns individually.

[Variable descriptions provided in order left to right as they appear in .csv file]

QUALTRICS-SUPPLIED VARIABLES
StateDate--Date/time at which respondent started survey
EndDate--Date/time at which respondent completed survey
Status--Qualtrics indicator for how checks for multiple responses were monitored
Progress--Value indicating the % of the survey the respondent completed
Duration--Number of seconds it took the respondent to complete the survey
Finished--Logical indicating whether the respondent finished the survey
RecordedDate--Date/time at which responses were recorded
ResponseId--Randomly-generated alphanumeric value to identify each respondent
DistributionChannel--Factor indicating how respondents entered into the survey
UserLanguage--The language in which the respondent took the survey

PRE-TREATMENT SURVEY RESPONSE VARIABLES
Q2--Respondent age (18-34; 35-44; 45-64; 65+)
Q4--Respondent gender (Male; Female; Other)
Q4_3_TEXT--If the respondent's gender is "other," the contents of the text box
Q6--Respondent educational attainment (Some high school, or less; High school graduate or GED; Some college, no 4-year degree; College graduate; Post-graduate degree)
Q7--Respondent race (American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Black or African-American; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; Other; White)
Q7_6_TEXT--If the respondent's race is "other," the contents of the text box
Q8--Respondent's identification as Hispanic (Yes; No)
Q9--Respondent's income (Less than $25,000; $25,000-$50,000;   $50,000-$75,000;  $75,000-$100,000; $100,000-$200,000; $200,000 or more)
Q11--Respondent's ideology (Very conservative, conservative, slightly conservative, moderate, slightly liberal, liberal, very liberal)
Q12--Respondent's initial partisan identification (Republican, Democrat, Independent, Other)
Q13--Whether respondents choosing Democrat in Q12 identify as strong or not strong Democrats (Strong Democrat; not a very strong Democrat)
Q14--Whether respondents choosing Republican in Q12 identify as strong or not strong Republicans (Strong Republican; not a very strong Republican)
Q15--Whether respondents choosing Indepedent in Q12 identify as leaners or true independents (Democratic, Republican, Neither)
Q383--Respondent's position on abortion (A woman should always be able to obtain an abortion; Abortion should never be permitted; Permit abortion only when the life of the mother is in danger)
Q384--Respondent's position on government spending (Decrease spending a large amount; Decrease spending a small amount; No change to spending; Increase spending a small amount; Increase spending a large amount)
Q385--Respondent's position on immigration (Opposes a pathway for citizenship for undocumented immigrants; Supports a pathway for citizenship for undocumented immigrants)
Q386--Attention check, respondents were asked to type a summary of a headline they saw on the previous page (open-ended response)

CONJOINT TASK/PROFILE RESPONSES
Columns 27-530 contain respondents' answers to questions about the profiles featured in each conjoint task.  For each task, 7 questions were asked: which candidate they would prefer to vote for (1), and (for each candidate) level of agreement that the candidate shares the respondents' views (2-3), has good morals (4-5), and care about people like the respondent (6-7).  Respondents in the forced choice arm have their responses recorded in columns 32-283, while those in the abstention arm have their choices recorded in columns 284-535.  Each set of seven columns correspondents with a separate task for each respondent (e.g., the first seven columns, Q86, Q90_1, Q90_2, Q90_3, Q90_4, Q90_5, and Q90_6 correspond with the first task for respondents in the forced choice arm).  

CONJOINT ATTRIBUTES AND LEVELS
Columns 531-692 provide the attributes and the corresponding levels presented in each conjoint task in each profile.  These attributes and levels were processed by Qualtrics as embedded data from a .php file designed by the Conjoint Survey Design Tool 2.0.  Headers with two numbers indicate the name of the attribute, and headers with three numbers indicate the level for the corresponding attribute.  For headers with two numbers, the first number indicates the task, and the second number indicates the order in which the attribute appeared in the conjoint table.  For headers with three numbers, the first number indicates the task, the second number indicates the profile within the task, and the third number indicates the order in which the attribute appeared in the conjoint table.  For instance, variable F-1-1 indicates the attribute that appeared first in the conjoint table in the first task, and variables F-1-1-1, F-1-2-1, and F-1-3-1 indicate the values that were provided for that attribute for the first, second, and third profiles, respectively.  Headers starting with G correspond to the recent news attribute, while those starting with F correspond to other candidate characteristics that may have been received by respondents in the moderate and high information environments.

MISCELLANEOUS
confirmation_code--Completion codes used by MTurkers to verify they completed the survey.
IP_block--Indicator for whether the respondent's IP address indicated that they should not be allowed to participate in the survey
IP_country--Country in which the respondent's IP address was located.
Remaining columns indicate display order; values in these columns report the partisan affiliation of each profile in the task, the complexity of the information environment, and whether the respondent was in the abstention or fixed choice arm.